Jeannine A. Cook, shopkeeper of Harriett’s Bookshop, for the last 10 years worked as a trusted writer for several startups, corporations, non-profits, influencers, and most recently herself.
In addition to holding a master’s degree from The University of the Arts, Jeannine is also a Leeway Art & Transformation grantee and winner of the South Philly Review Difference Maker and the PACDC Awards.
Jeannine’s work has been recognized by several national and international news outlets including the New York Times, CNN, Oprah Magazine, BET, and Forbes. She is a proud educator and mother with 8 years of teaching creative writing in alternative schools and on city blocks.
Jeannine writes about the complex intersections of motherhood, activism, and the arts and aims to amplify the voices of women authors, artists, and activist through her work now and into the future.
Stephen Pasqualina is a postdoctoral fellow in the Core Humanities Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. He completed his Ph.D. in the department of English at the University of Southern California. While working toward his Ph.D., he attended the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University and the Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College.
His research focuses primarily on modernist literature and visual culture, transnational American studies, science and technology studies, critical race studies, and 20th century historiography and historical theory. His current research is focused on how Zora Neale Hurston’s writing, film, and photography mediates the long history of colonial slavery. This work is part of a larger book project that examines the relationship between second-stage industrialization and the U.S. historical imaginary from 1880 to 1945.
Rasheedah Phillips is a queer housing attorney, parent, interdisciplinary artist, and Black Futurist cultural producer whose writing has appeared in Keywords for Radicals, Temple Political and Civil Right Journal, The Funambulist Magazine, Recess Art, and more. Phillips is the founder of The AfroFuturist Affair, a founding member of Metropolarity Queer Speculative Fiction Collective, co-founder of Black Quantum Futurism, and co-creator of Community Futures Lab. As part of BQF Collective and as a solo artist, Phillips is a former A Blade of Grass, Pew, and Velocity Fund Fellow, is a current Vera List Center and Knights Arts + USA Technology Fellow, and has exhibited, presented, been in residence, and performed at Institute of Contemporary Art London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Serpentine Gallery, Red Bull Arts, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Akademie Solitude, and more.
Rasheedah currently serves as the Managing Attorney of Housing Policy at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia. She began her career at CLS in 2008 in the Community Economic Development Unit, providing legal advice, representation, and engaging in community lawyering on behalf of small childcare for profit and non-profit organizations. Rasheedah is the recipient of the 2017 National Housing Law Project Housing Justice Award, the 2017 City & State Pennsylvania 40 Under 40 Rising Star Award, the 2018 Temple University Black Law Student Association Alumni Award, the 2018 CLS Equal Justice Award, and the 2019 Barristers Association of Philadelphia Outstanding Young Attorney Award. She is a 2016 Shriver Center’s Racial Justice Institute Fellow, 2018 Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, 2020 Givelber Distinguished Public Interest Lecturer. Rasheedah is a 2008 graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law, and 2005 graduate of Temple University.
Robert Yusef Rabiee is an assistant professor at Temple University where he teaches general education courses in the humanities, political philosophy, and critical race studies in the Intellectual Heritage Program. His scholarly work has appeared or in J19, Comitatus, ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, and Emerson Society Papers. Rabiee recently published Medieval America: Feudalism and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture.
Sheryl Sawin is an Associate Professor of Instruction and the Associate Director of the Intellectual Heritage Program. She received her Ph.D. in Early Modern English Literature, with a focus on Shakespeare, from The University of Rochester. She is co-editor of The Asheville Reader: The Medieval and Renaissance World. Aside from the English Renaissance, her research and teaching interests include the intersection of technology and the Liberal Arts.